DVD Compress

[Guest]

I am creating my own home movies and burning to a 4.7 Gb DVD. I have created
a 1.8 Gb mpeg file ( 120 Minutes) and it will not fit onto the DVD. I have
heard that the information can be compressed onto the disc. How can this be
done and what sort of software, if any, must be used. I am running XP
software and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 as well as Roxio to burn the DVD

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

How long is the movie.. you can only fit about 2 hours on a DVD, no matter
how compressed it is.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Cari, but how do they fit professional movies of 2.5-3 hours onto a DVD?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

They use dual layer DVDs. A commercially produced dual layer DVD is not the
same type of media that you can purchase as +DL or -DL format. You would
have to check at www.videohelp.com as to whether your standalone DVD player
can actually handle the DL media you can buy. Most, unfortunately, do not.

 

[Evolution54]

I am creating my own home movies and burning to a 4.7 Gb DVD. I have
created
a 1.8 Gb mpeg file ( 120 Minutes) and it will not fit onto the DVD. I
have
heard that the information can be compressed onto the disc. How can
this be
done and what sort of software, if any, must be used. I am running XP
software and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 as well as Roxio to burn the DVD

Not sure if this will help but I often use DVDshrink to backup my DVD
movies, which like Cari said, are dual layer DVDs. By using it, I can
shirnk the size of it to fit one DVD disc. You can give it a try but I
am not sure if it is going to work because I have never tried it with
home movies. I only used it to back up full dual layer DVD movies. Just
google it and it should come up.